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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

War is all about material. I don’t foresee Iran having the raw material economy for an extended war in the same way Russia does in ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago

lol that the remarkable diet is just “eat fruit and veg, and try to avoid sugar and other non complex carbs”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not to say bump caps are bad - I have several which I wear for diy and for work on certain appropriate job sites and the like. Knowing that, I’d wear one to a low risk protest as a “better than literally nothing” option, and I’d recommend others do the same, but you need to know their limitations and when they become no longer adequate protection.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Not really, they’re two competing design criteria. Concealable means small and low profile. But for protection you need it to be strong to distribute the impact across your head and also cushioning to absorb energy of the impact and spread the impact event out over a longer duration (like an airbag). As a result you need a relatively tough material suspended away from the surface of your head e.g. with webbing or foam etc. so good helmets are military ones (obviously) or mountaineering helmets, ski sports, full face mountain biking, construction helmets etc.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Just fyi a bump cap is negligible protection against any type of hard impact like; a falling object, a baton strike, a thrown object of any mass, or any rifle fired projectile like a rubber bullet or beanbag. A bump cap is only for protection against slow speed / low energy bumps on hard/rough/sharp surfaces, e.g. a mechanic working under a car, someone reaching into warehouse racking, a sparky working in a crawl space etc.

Not saying they’re a bad idea, they’re not, they’re very concealable, and can protect from causes of minor injuries that would otherwise have caused cuts and scrapes that could require medical attention, they’re really good at that, but that’s all they’re for. (Also worn inside a suitable hat will help with sunburn which is no bad thing!)

Just be aware anything that would cause a major injury without a bump cap will still cause a major injury with a bump cap.

Do wear a bump cap if you don’t have something better or if concealment is the priority. But don’t put yourself at risk thinking you’re safe because you’re wearing one, because, for anything that would actually cause serious injury you’re not really any better off with a bump cap than without.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Not answering your question, but bag wine is the best drink to smuggle into a music festival. Best volume (to minimise wees and concealability) to alcohol to pleasantness ratio.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Iran has a right to defend itself

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

If it’s Boeing I ain’t going

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

The mother character has really stuck with me. By far the best part of the movie.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

everything not astroturfed is a psyop designed to create mass shooters and incels.

Which confusingly is also a joint astroturfing effort from Big Therapy and the companies that sell parents backpacks with Kevlar panels for their kids when they send them to American public schools.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

This is delightful

 

You’re finding this out now?

 

Very cool footage of a Short Eared Owl’s nest on BBC springwatch this year. Short Eared Owl chick are ridiculous things!

 

It’s almost like traditional Labour voters: workers, the youth, the poor, the elderly aren’t exactly impressed with labours drive to make life in the uk worse for all the above sectors of society and see his spineless grovelling to Reform voters and transphobes for exactly what it is.

 

So this seems good…

PFAS are linked with cancer, fertility issues, and developmental delays in children — yet the E.P.A. has moved to weaken regulations designed to protect Americans

 

Brittish royals really can’t help themselves can they?

 

trump-enlightened bring the problem before the wise guru.

 

Today Drop Site News is publishing a landmark investigation about the BBC’s coverage of Israel’s unrelenting assault on Gaza by British journalist Owen Jones. His report is based on interviews with 13 journalists and other BBC staffers who offer remarkable insights into how senior figures within the BBC’s news operation skewed stories in favor of Israel’s narratives and repeatedly dismissed objections registered by scores of staffers who, throughout the past 14 months, demanded that the network uphold its commitment to impartiality and fairness. Jones’s investigation of the BBC has three main components: a deeply reported look into the internal complaints from BBC journalists, a quantitative assessment of how the BBC characterizes the year-long siege on Gaza, and a review of the histories of the people behind the coverage—and, in particular, one editor, Raffi Berg.

 

inshallah

 

I swear I’m not just listening to the Disco Elysium soundtrack on loop.

dubois-dance kitsuragi-dance

 

monkey-typewriter

 

I just want to be part of the fun.

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